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Chapter 9

Hidden Spells

Part 2

Never was a Secret Better Well Known

Hinata stood next to the door to the Hokage's office. Her eyes still held the tell-tale signs of her bloodline limit as she stared aimlessly off into space. The room inside held a penetrating silence that engulfed even her as she stood outside in the hall. A few of the people inside shifted nervously as they stood waiting. None dared open their mouths as the Godaime and the newly soon-to-be Rokudaime stared each other down.

Hinata knew spying on the Hokage could get her in a bit of trouble, but the only sign that someone was aware of her watching was the brief flicker of her brother's all seeing eyes and the buzz of the traitorous insects that were constantly ratting her out to their master.

The Godaime opened her deceivingly young looking pink lips and arched one perfect eyebrow.

"What? You don't like your new title, Demon Lord?" Tsunade-sama mocked as Hinata read her lips. "Why go through all the trouble of acquiring it then, Demon Lord?"

Naruto's frown deepened as his blues eyes harden to a point that sent a chill down Hinata's spine. She wished she could look away. "Baa-chan… please don't call me that." So she was reading the Hokage's lips right. Why would Naruto be called Demon Lord?

"I hate it."

Tsunade's eyes never faltered as she calmly stared into Naruto's slited ones.

That's right… Naruto's eyes were different now… Kiba's eyes were the same, but that was because if his blood, they have always been like that. So why did Naruto's change suddenly?

"Lady Tsunade…" Once again Sakura addressed her mentor. She knew how to tread carefully when Tsunade was likely to blow again. "Could you please elaborate as to what's going on?" Hinata knew if the room was not so tense Sakura would have just bashed Naruto over his head and demanded an explanation.

Tsunade's eyes pulled away from Naruto and looked at Sakura for a moment before sighing. "You all have a right to know this, as this may prove to be an issue in the future." Another sigh passed her lips as she mumble 'damn brat' under her breath.

"Like the title implies, Naurto here is now the king of all demons."

Naruto hated that title. He did not mean to get it…. it just happened.

"That title did not fall into your lap, boy. You earned it and you need to stop acting like you are cursed because of it." Kyuubi chided.

"But I am cursed because of it! It's the whole reason I was harassed for the last two years non stop!" Naruto growled in his head. "And I'm mutating to!"

"You're. Not. Mutating." Naruto could tell the fox was about to snap, which was only a reflection of how on edge Naruto himself really was.

Realizing that he needed to explain everything before whatever half-ass story Jiraiya had told Tsunade was spread to his friends, he took a deep breathe, closed his eyes, and washed the frown off his face. He could feel the worried looks that Sasuke was giving him (to everyone else it was an emotionless dead stare but Naruto knew that was his worried face) and when he opened his eyes he gave his friend a reassuring smile.

"Okay!" Every one jumped as he threw himself up and stood (he even heard a squeak from Hinata) and he clapped his hands together. "So, yah… okay, then." He started awkwardly as he gathered his thoughts. He met the amused green eyes of Sakura and felt himself calm even more. "So let's have a history lesson!"

A poorly held back snort from Kiba and an eye roll from Shikamaru were the first reactions. Ino held back her own amused smile as she spoke up. "Um, Naruto, didn't you sleep through every history lesson that did not evolve someone's rise to power and fall from it? Saying you only needed to get it right this time around?"

"And that 'who the hell cares where the telephone poles placed all throughout our county came from, as long as you can call collect'?" Choji put in as he slowly pulled out a bag of chips, seeing that things were not as tense as before.

Tsunade had decided to let him tell the… events, as she was now looking through her drawers for some sake. She grinned as an intact bottle was pulled from the wreckage but was then stolen by an annoyed Shizune, who scolded her that this was not time to get drunk. To which Tsunade reasoned with it was the perfect time since she did not feel she could handle hearing the story second time without choking someone this time around.

Reluctantly, the bottle was given back.

Naruto, who was now sure that Hinata was spying on them since she gave a giggle at the exchange between the two older women behind him, steeled himself to spill his most guarded secrets.

"Well this wasn't in the history books." Naruto started as he looked at some of his closes friends. "It's about the attack on Konoha seventeen years ago."

"The Nine-Tailed fox attack? That awful time in youth?" Lee asked from his spot next to Sakura…

"…Uh…Yeah." Naruto rushed through the next part as he crammed as many facts as he could into one long sentence. He really did not want talk about this part. "Well the fox wasn't defeated, only sealed inside of me by my father, the Fourth, after it was summoned and controlled against it will and the village was then forbidden from ever talking about it, so I didn't even know until I was twelve." Naruto gave an awkward laugh. He was only aware of Sakura and Sasuke knowing, so it surprised him that only a few looked surprised, the rest looked… annoyed.

"Half of us already knew about the fox and everyone knew about your father." Shikamaru enlighten. "Frankly it's an insult to think no one could see that you were the Fourth's son; you look JUST like him." He looked out the window to glance at the massive carved image of the said Hokage. Who, indeed, looked JUST like Naruto.

"You knew?"

"And do you really think no one talked about the fox?" Shikamaru continued. "Plus, the fact that they shunned a mere child for no apparent reason was a huge indicator that there was more going on with you."

"To be fair Akamaru told me…" Kiba added as he shrugged. "You can't really stop animals from talking…"

"I had heard the rumors, but at chunin exams, it was clear." Neji spoke in a calm voice.

"My colony." Was all Shino said.

"When ever I practiced, people would panic and worry that I would find out from their minds. So by them trying to block me, it was always on their minds. Idiots." Ino mumbled the last part with a roll of her eyes.

"Hey, I didn't know about the fox part!" Choji seemed hurt no one told him.

"Lord knows you're too thick to figure it out yourself." Ino smirked and the now angry Choji who had a gleam in his eyes and muttered 'Thick?'

"I didn't know either! Did you Lee?" Tenten turned to her teammate, as if hoping that both were not keeping things from her.

"I saddens me that my fiery passion of youth could not be trusted with this fact by our beloved mentor! I was deceived as well, noble Tenten!" Lee placed his head mournfully on Sakura's shoulder. She gave his crying form an amused smile while rubbing his back.

"There, there." She soothed. He looked up at her with a hurt look.

"Did you, my fair flower, know of this as well?" Sakura tensed and gave a soft laugh.

"Kind of…" She gave an apologetic kiss to his head.

Naruto nearly broke down in laughter as Sasuke shuddered violently (by any stander) and mouthed to him 'What the hell? Are they going out?' Naruto nodded and Sasuke shuddered again when she kissed his forehead… way to close to his fuzzy brows… even Naruto shuddered that time.

"Anyway…" Naruto cleared his throat. "If everyone knew, why not say anything!" Naruto was annoyed that EVERYONE knew about his dad when he just found out a few years ago.

Kiba shrugged. "Didn't matter."

"Plus, if you didn't feel comfortable telling us, what right did we have invading your privacy?" Naruto could have laughed since THAT came from INO.

"Demon fox or not, your still the same troublesome kid, Naruto." Shikamaru said with a small grin.

Damn… this was… damn.

Talk about touching.

For some reason the fact Kiba and Shikamaru knew… they use to play with him back in school. If they always known then… Damnit, if he cried…

Hey what about… "Neji? Did Hinata know?"

Instantly the glare from earlier returned and Naruto stepped back. "No, but now it is unavoidable."

She did not know… She was on the other side of the door hearing this for the first time… so far no one seemed too bothered by the news… would she care?

No, no, she was to kind to shun him! But was not that a problem too? Even if she felt different about him from this, she would hide it. She would still be the same sweet Hinata he knew… the thought of her feeling any distress over this was disturbing.

He wanted to see her face.

"So what happened already?" Sakura's patience was wearing thin and her anger snapped his attention back to them.

Naruto sighed. "Well the seal has never really been that… great. So whenever I needed to, I would be able to use the fox's chakra, but it was always taxing to my body. After awhile I noticed I could handle more and more of it as time pasted. Well, I found out that that's because the chakra was freaking mutating me to handle the power. Into a damn fox demon~!" He yelled at no one while shaking a fist. "And it's not normal for the last time!"

With a sigh Sasuke spoke up. "He can talk with a fox inside him. They argue a lot."

He received nods as they all took in Naruto's crazy antics, as he went on half yelling the story. "So THEN I had to leave to get use to the MUTATIONS and apparently OTHER DEMONS can sense the MIGHTY POWER OF KYUUBI and ATTACKED ME EVERY CHANCE THEY GOT!"

Naruto seemed to no longer notice they were there and was just plain yelling now.

"Damn it, Naruto calm down!" Sakura yelled at him through clenched teeth. He went on like he did not hear her.

"Then it was Ero-Sennin's bright idea to go talk to the current demon king to get him to stop the attacks-"

"It was YOUR idea!" Tsunade roared and she flew at the old man. Naruto knew he could not have told her the whole truth if she was not mad at him.

"But it was a good idea!" The frog sage jumped away from his enraged friend and hid behind the line of young shinobi, who all looked wide eye at their furious leader.

"How the hell did you even know where to go?" She quizzed.

"We asked Gamabunta who told us about a cave and at the cave was hobbit who told us about a human sage who then told us about a tree that pointed towards the truth and that took-"

"We get it!" Ino and Sakura yelled at Naruto. He glared at them and went on.

"So we found out the entrance was in Sound and I kind of kidnapped Sasuke and dragged him along."

"Wait." Kiba rubbed his head, "Did you go to… another world? You said the entrance was IN Sound. What are you talking about?"

Naruto sighed. This was giving him a headache; people yelling at him, interrupting him, and questioning him every two seconds. He was never going to finish…

"No" He rolled his eyes "Not to another world. A hidden kingdom-"

"But we're a hidden kingdom." Kiba pointed out. Naruto rubbed his temples.

"Well a hidden, hidden kingdom then." Naruto looked pointedly at Kiba, daring him to ask another question. Seeing that the dog boy was done asking, Naruto opened his mouth to go on.

Only to have Tenten speak first.

"How did you get to another kingdom from in Sound?"

"Dear Kami!" Naruto dropped down into his chair and leaned on his hand. He had forgotten how his friends could be. He looked up as Tsunade let loose a merry laugh.

"My goodness brat! How do you expect to be Hokage if you can't even get a group of jonin to listen? You would be eaten alive by the ANBU, for certain!" She laughed again and then addressed the others in the room. "Jiraiya." She said sweetly. "Sit." Nervously he did so. "Everyone else; if you interrupt again… you will regret it." The group before her stiffens in fear. She still held that same sickly sweet smile on her face as she looked towards the door. "Hinata-chan." There was an 'epp' sound behind the door. "You are sneaky, like your father. Come in and join us." Slowly the door opened and Hinata slyly slipped in and stood next to Neji. She gave a shaky smile to Shino, who was staring her down.

"Sorry, Shino-kun." She gave a soft laugh as she rubbed the back of her head; a move that remind Naruto oddly of himself. Naruto felt his heart drop as she avoided his gaze.

With order restored, Tsunade looked back at Naruto. "Go ahead, Demon King Uzumaki." She clicked her tongue with each syllable of his last name.

Naruto felt Kyuubi growl in the same annoyance he felt. She was enjoying this.

A/N: The idea that anybody who has lived in the Leaf Village all their life would be shocked that the Fourth was Naruto's father is insane. Hell, that was the theme of half the Naruto stories on this site when I found it years ago…

Ah, I remember when there were only five pages of Naruto/Hinata, now there are- hold on, let me go check. It's been awhile since I've read a Naruto story… let's see, I want All with ratings… Naruto… Hinata… Go… Wait, what? Three? That can't be right… what the hell is this World option? Oh! Anime and Manga filter! How nice! Anime then… None? Okay what the hell… Oh, my bad, I picked Naruko not Naruto! HA! Okay so Naruto and I'll keep on the Anime filter… Go… Twenty-six pages. 636 stories.

I guess that's not an unreasonable amount over the time period that has pasted.

What about both Anime and Manga? Go... Holy. Shit. 502 pages. 12,547 stories… Just… I… yeah…so…what was I talking about again?

Oh yeah. So, like, fathers are awesome.